The Báb

PRAISE be to God that He hath enabled us to become
cognizant of Him Whom God shall make manifest in the
Day of Resurrection, so that we may derive benefit from
the fruit of our existence and be not deprived of attaining
the presence of God. For indeed this is the object of our
creation and the sole purpose underlying every virtuous
deed we may perform. Such is the bounty which God hath
conferred upon us; verily He is the All-Bountiful, the
Gracious. Know thou, that thou wilt succeed in doing so if
thou believest with undoubting faith. However, since thou
canst not attain the state of undoubting faith, due to the
intervening veils of thy selfish desires, therefore thou wilt
tarry in the fire, though realizing it not. On the Day of His
manifestation, unless thou truly believest in Him, naught
can save thee from the fire, even if thou dost perform every
righteous deed. If thou embracest the Truth, everything
good and seemly shall be set down for thee in the Book of
God, and by virtue of this thou wilt rejoice in the all-highest
Paradise until the following Resurrection.

Consider with due attention, for the path is very strait,
even while it is more spacious than the heavens and the
earth and what is between them. For instance, if all those
who were expecting the fulfilment of the promise of Jesus
had been assured of the manifestation of Muḥammad, the
Apostle of God, not one would have turned aside from the
sayings of Jesus. So likewise in the Revelation of the Point
of the Bayán, if all should be assured that this is that same
Promised Mihdí [One Who is guided] whom the Apostle
of God foretold, not one of the believers in the Qur’án
would turn aside from the sayings of the Apostle of God. So
likewise in the Revelation of Him Whom God shall make
manifest, behold the same thing; for should all be assured
that He is that same ‘He Whom God shall make manifest’
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whom the Point of the Bayán hath foretold, not one would
turn aside. IX, 3.